Jerry Perenchio Quotes
I just don't want to give out interviews. I just hate them. Inevitably, I ended up hurting some people or leaving some names out or getting quoted out of context.
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It took me a while and a lot of hard times to figure out my purpose, I am so happy with my life. I just want to help make other people happy, too.
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Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for. It isn't to make money that's for sure. I've never made any.
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I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.
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I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
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I believe God knew what he was doing when he put oil under our ground. It should be a means to an end.
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I've been living. I've been doing the writing thing. I've been being the family man. I've been traveling the world. I been to, like, 18 cities last year. I've been getting my thoughts together, trying to figure out what's going on with hip-hop itself.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.
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I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball again in my life.
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The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.
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I've always been honest with my fans, and I want to keep that up because I feel they can see through the fakeness.
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Every poor designer can go with things that are popular at the moment.
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The two most frightening words in Washington are 'bipartisan consensus.' Bipartisan consensus is when my doctor and my lawyer agree with my wife that I need help.
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If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.
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Merriment is always the effect of a sudden impression. The jest which is expected is already destroyed.
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If you are weak, dependent upon others, inclined to allow yourself to be dominated by opinion, to take root wherever you see a little soil, make for yourself a shield that will resist everything, for if you yield to your weaker nature you will not grow, you will dry up like a dead plant, and you will bear neither fruit nor flowers.
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Maybe I'll be 48 and die in the gutter in Paris.
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It's no use trying to be different than you are.
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I just like comedy in general. My film work, which has been at times more dramatic, has been satisfying. But I never feel quite as good and as light and blissful as when I'm doing comedy.
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I just don't want to give out interviews. I just hate them. Inevitably, I ended up hurting some people or leaving some names out or getting quoted out of context.
